Its finally done, after several weeks of sweat, blood and lost pieces overboard. Thanks to the Nancy Blackett crew for winching me up and down the damn mast, and Billy and John for the help hanging out and making dick… Continue reading
Next week I head off for almost two weeks. I plan to go down to Tacoma/Seattle to see some friends, head up to the islands and bum around there for a week and then head back down to Seattle to… Continue reading
I’m in the middle of installing my spinnaker track, but took a break to do a couple of small tasks that have been bugging me for a while First of all, I needed to declutter the decks – currently there… Continue reading
On my pedestal, I could push the throttle to around 2600 RPMs under load, but it always went down to ~2100RPM. I’d always assumed this was by design, but apparently not! So I firstly took the compass off and looked… Continue reading
If you follow this blog somewhat regularly and have a good memory, you will remember me bitching about a leak above the nav table. I thought this was a leaky porthole, so I ordered a new one from New Found… Continue reading
I needed to go up the mast to a) rerun the spreader halyard for my courtesy/quarantine flag that I stupidly had let come off b) rerun the halyard for the spinnaker (and more importantly, the hammock) which I had stupidly… Continue reading
Hooray! I picked it up and a spinnaker pole from the marine exchange store, together they were under 600 bucks which is pretty amazing. Getting the pole (which is almost 16 feet long) back home in my tiny toyota… Continue reading
AS EXCITING AS IT SOUNDS One of the nice things about the Cherubini Hunter 36 is that engine access is excellent – you can get in from the front, from the side lazarette and the entire cockpit floor lifts up… Continue reading